NEWS IN BRIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 12 May 1924, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Airs Roek, the oldest woman in Europe, died in Roscommon aged 114. Bow Quong, one of the Chinese who was wounded when Chong Foon ran amok at innisfail, is dead, says a Brisbane message. Earl Dudley is offering at auction a ton and a half of family silver, and a library of 20,000 volumes, from Himley Hall, his Dudley seat, says a cable from London. An Auckland message says that the description of the body found at Mo--tuihi answers to that of John Dewar, missing from his home at Avondale since May 6. The biennial elections at Perth, says a cable, for the Legislative Council were held on Saturday. Of the seven contested seats, the results up to the present give Labour two seats, and the Nationalists one. The other four are incomplete. A strange scene was witnessed at Derby (says a London message), where mourners ha dto fill in a grave after interment, owing to a strike of grave diggers for increased wages. Until a settlement is reached, bereaved persons must dig graves for deceased relatives. A cable from London says that the executive of the Miners’ Federation met the miner members of the House of Commons and discussed Mr George Hall’s Nationalisation of Alines and Minerals Bill. It was decided to wait upon Air MacDonald and request Government support for the measure. A Berlin message says that the Socialist Party unanimously decided to demand a national plebiscite on the acceptance or rejection of the Dawes report. Socialists argue that the election struggle, embracing as it did twentythree parties, obscured the reparations issue, upon which it is so important the people should be permitted to give a clear “Yes” or “No.”

A Reuter message from-London say* that the Colonial Office reports that 100 townspeople and six members of the levy force were killed at Kireuk, in Mesopotamia, on Alay 4, as a result o? a conflict due to a number of the levy force seizing arms and breaking loose * despite their officers’ efforts, on learning that three shopkeepers had assaulted three of their comrades during an altercation. Order has been restored.

A Press Association message says. • Dunedin inaugurated, to-day, a National Hospital Day Observance, after the example of America, perj*etuating the memory of Florence Nightingale. A big delegation of schoolgirls was shown over the hospital and nurses* home. The object is to interest the public more vitally in hospital f#*' tions, A message was received from Air Gilmore, Chicago, Chairman of the National Hospital Day in America, congratulating the Dunedin Hospital on the commemoration programme.